42nd Street (First Complete Recording) | Review
Most interesting for 42nd Street fanatics, there’s the little-heard ‘I Know Now’, a lament for Dorothy and Billy which didn’t even appear on the original cast recording
Album Reviews
The Drifters Girl (Original Cast Album) | Review
The indisputably wonderful part of this flawed enterprise is the music: The Drifters, in all their various incarnations, have a fantastic back catalogue
A Strange Loop (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Review
The distinctiveness of Michael R Jackson’s writing comes through loud and clear
My Fair Lady (Complete Recording) | Review
Tinuke Olafimihan cannot quite rival the zing of Julie Andrews’s pinpoint singing, but she meets all the other musical challenges
13: The Musical (Soundtrack from the Netflix film) | Review
The clever thing about the score is that it has a teen vibe – it’s poppy and propulsive with catchy hooks
Mrs Doubtfire (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Review
This release makes a case for the show’s future viability
The Pleasure Garden (Original London Cast Recording) | Review
In their duet, Lady Lovelock reminds her husband, in a tart exchange, that sodomy is a hanging offence
SIX: Live on Opening Night (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Review
The engineering places you on stage and in the audience at the same time